- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you a better way
to create a new pattern based on an existing one
that's a heck of a lot less confusing, frankly.
And that's going to allow us to add these repeated reflections
closer to the center of the eye.
Alright, so the first thing we want to do is
ensure that we're going to keep our effects live by
applying them to the original object on the Drawing Layer.
So, I'll go ahead and turn off the Pattern Layer,
for the moment, and I'll select this shape right here.
And, notice what we have, if you will, is a compound shape.
So, this circle right here, the lower circle,
is cutting a hole in the higher circle behind it.
And then, the remaining region is filled with a gradient.
And, if you were to bring up the gradient panel right here,
you would see that it's a fairly complicated gradient.
It has a bunch of shades of blue in it,
and some of the colors stops are set to zero percent
opacity, and that allows us to create these holes right here
on either side of the shape.
Alright, so what we want to do is
take this effect and duplicate it a couple of times
using a live transform effect.
So, I'll go ahead and switch back to the Stroke Panel,
just so I have a little more room to work.
And I'll switch over to the Appearance Panel,
which of course you can get by choosing
the Appearance command from the Window Menu.
Notice that we're working with a compound shape, once again.
No stroke, gradient fill and a little bit of Gaussian Blur.
And, then the Blend Mode is set to Screen.
Alright, so now what I want to do
is go up to the Effect Menu, choose Distort and Transform,
and choose Transform, which if you loaded D Keys,
has a handy keyboard shortcut of CTRL + E here on the PC,
or Command + E on the Mac.
And, now I'll go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox.
And, then I just went ahead and experimented here.
I'm going to click in Horizontal Scale value
and press Shift + Down Arrow a few times,
in order to reduce the width of the effect.
And then I'll tab to the Vertical value
and take it down as well, ultimately to 40%.
Now I want to see what that looks like,
so I'll go ahead and click in the Copies value here,
and I'll press the Up Arrow key a couple of times
so that we have these two copies.
Notice they're way too close to the original.
So, I went ahead and changed the origin point,
in this little reference point matrix right here,
to the bottom point, like so.
And that ends up spreading things out pretty nicely,
but now the reflections are too close to the center.
And, so I clicked in this Vertical Move value, and I pressed
Shift + Down Arrow, in order to reduce that value to -10.
And then I pressed the Down Arrow key a few more times
until I got the effect I was looking for.
So, to recap, the Horizontal Scale value is 50%.
The Vertical Scale value is 40%.
I set the Copies value to two.
I selected the bottom point in the reference point matrix.
And I set the Vertical Move value to -14.
At which point, I'll click OK to accept that change.
Alright, now we want to update the pattern.
And you can do that by first pressing CTRL + C,
or Command + C on the Mac, in order to copy the effect.
Then, click off the paths, in order to deselect them,
so you don't end up filling them with a pattern.
And, assuming you're working along with me,
go ahead and select that second pattern swatch HAL 2.
And, then instead of double-clicking on it, just drop down
to the little page icon at the bottom of the Swatches Panel,
and click on it.
And anytime you're working with a pattern swatch,
that is going to duplicate that swatch,
as we're seeing right here.
At which point, I'll just go ahead and call this guy HAL 3,
and click OK, and now we have a third swatch.
Now, I'll double-click on it,
in order to switch to the Pattern Editor.
And, I'll click on this guy right here,
which is the reflection, which has once again
been rasterized to a pixel-based image.
So, go ahead and select it and press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac, to get rid of it.
And then press CTRL + F, or Command + F on the Mac,
in order to paste in the new reflections.
Notice once again, they are off center,
so you're going to have to press CTRL + Y, or Command + Y
on the Mac, to switch to the Outline Mode.
And I'll go ahead and zoom in a little bit,
just so I have a more satisfying experience here.
And I'll drag the center point so that it snaps
into alignment with the center of the other circles.
And you want to drag that top center point, by the way,
not the bottom one.
It doesn't look to me like we've really
snapped into alignment right there.
So, I'm going to zoom in a little closer.
And this is one of those times when smart guys
can get in your way, actually.
So, I'm going to undo that movement.
And I'm going to go up to the View Menu
and turn off Smart Guides to get them out of my way.
And then I'll drag this top center point once again,
not this guy down here, but this one.
I'll go ahead and drag it until it snaps into alignment.
Well, I guess, Smart Guides would've helped me out
a little bit there cause I got no snap whatsoever.
But it looks like it's aligned anyway.
Alright, so I'll just go ahead and press CTRL + 0,
or Command + 0 on the Mac, in order to zoom out.
I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
And then I'll press CTRL + Y, or Command + Y on the Mac,
to switch back to the preview mode.
At which point, everything looks to be in good shape.
Now, as you can see here in the Pattern Options panel,
we are working on the HAL 3 pattern,
which means all you need to do at this point is
click the Done button, up here at the top of the screen,
or you can just press the Escape key.
Now, you are going to get that first alert message once again
that's telling you that you're going to lose,
in this case, your live effects.
All you can do is click OK to accept that fact.
But, it's not a problem because we still have
our original live effects, right here on the Drawing Layer
here inside the Layers panel.
Alright, so I'll go ahead
and turn the Pattern Layer back on.
And then I'll click on the big red rectangle to select it,
make sure my fill is active in the Swatches Panel, and then
I'll select HAL 3 in order to update all those reflections.
Alright, that's it.
So, I'll just go ahead and press the F key a couple of times
to switch to the Full Screen mode.
And I'll press CTRL + 0, or Command + 0 on the Mac,
to center my zoom.
And that is how you create a pattern
of honest to gosh HAL 9000 eyes,
over the course of five movies here inside Illustrator.